Definitions for sideshows

sideshows side·show

Spelling: [sahyd-shoh]
IPA: /ˈsaɪdˌʃoʊ/

Sideshows is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in sideshows (dehiosssw).

Definitions for sideshows

noun

  1. a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
  2. any subordinate event or matter.

Origin of sideshows

An Americanism dating back to 1840-50

Examples for sideshows

I have wondered sometimes if it were a seat in a sideshow which she had designed for me.

But drinking seems like a sideshow in these joints, not the main event.

The more I wrote about her sideshow behavior, the more I felt seeing it in person was my destiny.

It was all like a county fair of Iowa, only more dignified, with no touch of sideshow.

The sideshow got a dime of hers before the big show started and again after it ended.

But the shutdown is something of a sideshow, provoked by impatient conservatives who wanted confrontation.

The natural gas boom has become little more than a sideshow.

A library of trivia, museum of curiosa, sideshow of freaks, and shrine of greatness.

I haven't had a better one since I went to the sideshow at the circus.

The trial of Morsi, now due to begin February 1, will be just a sideshow.

Word Value for sideshows
Scrable

15

Words with friends

14

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